Hello, Lanzo. In which area will your boat be navigating? I mean, which coast are you talking about? It should be easy to get a reasonably good shapefile of that shoreline and you would be permanently informed of the distance to the nearest vertex. Regards, Juan Lucas
________________________________ De: community-boun...@lists.openmoko.org en nombre de Joseph Reeves Enviado el: lun 06/07/2009 17:58 Para: List for Openmoko community discussion Asunto: Re: which gps app can do this? gvSIG Mobile 0.1.4 was released today, here's a guide that should help you: http://gvsigmobileonopenmoko.wordpress.com/download/ Create a shapefile of your coast line (or download a shapefile for a country) and you should be good to go. http://blogs.thehumanjourney.net/finds/entry/unofficial_gvsig_mobile_0_1 Cheers, Joseph 2009/6/28 lanzo <lanz...@gmail.com>: > > Hi! > I'd like to be using my FR on my little boat as marine GPS. I was curious > if, in your opinion, it could be possible to constantly show the distance > between me and the nearest point on the coast line. This would be important > because in my country (and i guess everywhere) there are rules about the > little boats distances from the coast and I cannot overcome 3 nautical > miles. > > I know it should be possible to show the distances between my present > position and any given point, but what about something always displaying the > distances between my position and the nearest point on the coast? > > is there maybe any more in-topic forum where i can ask this? > > Thank you very much for any answer! > bye! :) > -- > View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/which-gps-app-can-do-this--tp3169715p3169715.html > Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
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